Business Guide to Safer Chemicals: Fourth Edition

Find out how companies in the chemicals industry are addressing the many complex and practical challenges of making safer chemicals

The Business Guide to Safer Chemicals, now in its fourth year, brings together a series of in-depth, practical case studies that examine how companies are addressing the various chemical safety challenges they face.

In this year’s edition, we take a look at companies across a diverse range of sectors, including:

pharmaceuticals and in vitro diagnostic medical devices;

textiles;

aerospace and defense;

paints and coatings;

organic pigments;

retail; and

flame retardants.

If you’re a brand, material or component manufacturer, the guide will provide you with ideas and practicalexamples of how businesses are delivering all the good things that chemicals bring to modern life with fewer of the downsides.

Contents

Introduction

Tracking SVHCs in diagnosticsMaterial declaration, not just substance tracking, is needed to make chemical regulation work as intended

The great outdoorsClothing manufacturer Páramo has worked to eliminate hazardous chemicals from its products

IPC-1754 prepares for take-offThe aerospace and defence industry could adopt a standard from other complex chemical-consuming industries for substance reporting

Painting a circular economyThe British Coatings Federation plans to create a recycling system for left-over paint

Nano looking more black and white for pigments sectorAn industry association has taken proactive steps ahead of potential regulation on its products

Keeping EDCs out of the storeCoop Denmark has a chemicals policy that goes beyond what EU legislation imposes

Transparent and collaborativeAkzoNobel is seeking to connect product stewardship with sustainability profiles for certain products

Safety must be designed inCustomers will not pay a ‘green premium’ but it still has a marketable value in some applications

BPA could get cannedA major can coatings producer has worked with other stakeholders to develop an alternative to bisphenol A-based epoxies

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